Intro
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[Verse 1]
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We packed our few belongings and we moved across the ocean
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To start a new life in this land so bold and vast
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Dispersed from Ellis Island, my distant Irish kin
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Eyes cut to the future, heart’s tied to the past
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[Verse 2]
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We held tight to our loved ones and we held on to the promise
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and we scraped our meager living hand to mouth
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We prayed to what would have us, every doubting John Thomas
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spreading through the Appalachia ever south
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Spread through Appalachia ever south
[Verse 3]
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And I hear we weren’t welcomed here, at least not in those days
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No one needs our drunken, fighting, thieving kind
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But we settled in this new place and we worked it in our ways
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and spread our kin upon it in due time
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Spread our kin upon it in due time
[Chorus 1]
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And we fought our losing battles and we held onto our ways
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and we talk of how we left behind our better days
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Some were living lives of leisure, some surviving hand to mouth
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Bash our heads against the future, ever south
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Bash our heads against the future ever south
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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When I set my sights upon you, we were both still in our prime
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We were moving in big circles that I sought out to combine
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And I held you in my arms and swore eternal love this time
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Tried to lasso brighter futures and let it drag us both behind
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Lasso brighter futures, let it drag us both behind
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[Chorus 2]
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So we aimed our sights westward like so many did before
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Expanding our horizons to some distant shore
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Where everyone takes notice of the drawl that leaves our mouth
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So that no matter where we are we’re ever south
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No matter where we are we’re ever south
[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
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Now my Christian Southern brethren will tell you all what for
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to keep your heathen ways up in you and your shoes outside the door
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take your stand for noble causes till you just can’t stand no more
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and surrender to some savior, Praise the Lord,
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Surrender to some savior, Praise the Lord
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[Verse 6]
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But despite our best intentions, it pains me to report
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we keep swinging for the fences, coming up a little short
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We sure can get it wrong for someone so devout
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I hear you whistling past the graveyard looking down
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Whistling past the graveyard looking down
{Chorus 3}
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Ever Southern in my carriage, ever southern in my stance
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in the Irish of my complexion and the Scottish in my dance
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in the way I bang my head against my daily circumstance
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Let this blue eyed southern devil take you out upon the prowl
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with decadence and charm we’ll take it into town
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tell you stories of our fathers and the glories of our house
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Always told a little slower, ever south
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Always told a little slower, ever south
[Outro]
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- 1. Chord Gitar Drive-By Truckers - Ever South Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Drive-By Truckers - Ever South Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar A#)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan